Your own fashion/beauty faux pas

[MoxieGrrl]

Sometimes we have days where we look like "that girl." Even though we all know how to look our best, sometimes we just don't. Anyone out there care to share?

My eyebrows struggle. I admit it. I just don't have the patience to tweeze all the time and never feel like paying to get them waxed.

Pedicure? Pffftt.....every once in a while. I have dancer's feet, so I'm sure they look lovely when I rock my sandles every day.

After my post-anorexic chubby phase, I did not go buy new clothes. Now I have dressy work pants that are too big, but I still wear them.

And when I don't feel like drying my hair after the gym before work...I wear a claw clip.

[AXJules]

I proudly rock the superlong, slouchy sock when I wear gym shoes and am dancing/working out.

I used to wear them just casually w/shorts, but when I got to MO people told me they wouldn't hang out w/me unless I changed.
It's hilarious b/c at high school in Chicago, if you didn't wear Wigwams or some other type of huge, long slouch sock, you were considered, um, to like girls.....think butchy type gym teacher.....yeah I dunno I swear they like made or broke your popularity, then I get here and my friends threaten to burn them...

The 622- the only sock there is

Wigwams will always be my fashion no- no.

[Dionysus]

....in the past

*I used to sport roots

*refuse to wear lotion (loooong time ago, like 12).

*Wear sweatshirts w/ shorts

*Wear plaid shirts

*Wear perfectly matching clothes and accessories (i.e. purple shirt, purple pants, purple socks, purple shoes, purple scrunchies, purple ear rings, etc.)

Oh those were the days.

[chideltjen]

Originally posted by Dionysus

*Wear perfectly matching clothes and accessories (i.e. purple shirt, purple pants, purple socks, purple shoes, purple scrunchies, purple ear rings, etc.)

i did the same thing. in high school, my friends accused me of being trendy

I went thru a phase where i would wear the same sweatshirt for days at a time, kind of like a jacket. we had a dress code at school so my fashion sense was limited.

in jr high, i sported emerald green and royal purple jeans

can't forget my vinyl airwalks.

my first year of college i CHOPPED my hair off. but it wasn't in a good way. i looked like a mushroom cuz my hair is so thick and it wasn't meant to look that short. so glad it is now below my shoulders now.

[xok85xo]

i wore skirts w/sneakers..i was very grunge, lol

flannel shirts

i owned a couple pairs of cavericcis

these were all years ago..recently, i'm not ashamed to leave my house on a sunday in old ratty warmups covered in paint.. i'll admit it.

i also have several pairs of pants that i wear to work that are way too big..

there are also days where i'll get dressed for work, not really care what i throw on, and then the rest of the day whenever i look at myself in the mirror be like "what the hell was i thinking?"..not hat the outfits are bad per se, i just don't necessarily like them that day..if that makes sense

oh yeah, occasionally i'll carry a black purse while wearing brown shoes because i really don't like my brown purse and need a new one, but haven't found one that i like..and sadly i can't afford the louis i want, so i pretend not to care, but deep down it drives me nuts that im accesorizing black w/brown.

[texas*princess]

hmm.. when i was in high school, i didn't wear outfits like everyone.. i wore costumes.. hehehe.. i looked like i came straight out of the movie "Clueless"... I think what made it more weird is that everyone else in my high school wore shirts and jeans all the time .. I just had to be different.

[amycat412]

my fav outfit right now is -

-pair of light army green low rise cargo pants that are 2 sizes too big that i got for $6 on the clearance rack at old navy
-old and I mean OLD ribbed black turtleneck
-black velvet flip flops i got at rite aid for $7.

LOL

now i am fully aware I look like a grungy slob in this-- i wear it to work, to class, on weekends--but not OUT OUT, if that makes sense... so imagine my amusement when mr amycat's fashion obsessed sister told me i always look so cute and where did i get that outfit, she had to have it. I'm like, this whole outfit cost less than $30. lol

[Peaches-n-Cream]

I used to wear cute preppy outfits in high school because I had a dress code. It carried through to college for a little while until I discover the joys of wearing jeans, t-shirts, sweats, leggings, and sneakers to class. Suddenly, these items dominated my wardrobe. I was a mess for a while. I wore huge XXXL sweatshirts with leggings when I wore a size 8. So did everyone at my school! I got my act together, but for a while there it was bad.

At least I wasn't as bad as my younger sister who was notorious for wearing sweaters with sweatpants. She really thought that she looked cute, too. She also constantly wore blazers for a while with shoes and a handbag that can only be described as witch-like. She looks very good now.

[AlphaGamDiva]

i have always been fashionably inclined, so to enlighten you all on my progress of style through the years.....

when was it not appropriate to wear 2 diff colored socks on each foot with some glow-in-the-dark high-tops...we're talking young here with some fashion sense....like, one foot would have hot pink then lime green, while the other would have lime green then hot pink...matching, of course, my jean shorts with lime green and hot pink ruffles on the bottoms. i was an example to all throughout 1987-1991...esp. with that spiral perm!

i then enjoyed displaying the "preppy" look in middle school of a high ponytail with a big ribbon, socks up to my knees, and luggage-tag earrings WITH my initials....stylin'....100%...not to mention the obnoxious color lip-stick i chose to wear to accent those braces in the most positive of ways.

high school...i dressed up. daily. 3 in heals walked into that gym to change into only the best work-out gear only to not sweat...ever....unless we played some b-ball. then, up came the socks again........

college....seeeeee.....for a while there i enjoyed the company of too much glitter and SILVER, SHINEY, SHINEY, SHINEY, SILVER eye shadow. hey....i was damn sexy!

so now, in my final college years, you can only imagine the loveliness i exude day in and day out

[KillarneyRose]

I have only one thing to say.....

FLASHDANCE

[Peaches-n-Cream]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
I have only one thing to say.....

FLASHDANCE

What a feeling!

[juniorgrrl]

Remember the hats that Blossom and Clarissa wore - the ones that were kinda floppy and had the giant flower on the front holding it up?

Yeah, I had 2 of them. I thought I looked so great in them. Thank goodness I had a uniform for school!

In HS, after I started going to private school, I still wore plaid skirts and button down blouses. But with tennis shoes or hiking boots. I just couldn't break the catholic schoolgirl thing.

I had a phase where I wouldn't wear pants. Ever. I'd wear skirts or shorts, even in winter. That was when I was about 10.

In HS, I would wear my converse all-star low tops with skirts/dresses. although, I think that was sort-of cool at the time. Not sure.

I cringe when I think about the white jean shorts I wore on my senior class trip. My only consolation is that everyone had them.

Right now, I feel really conspicuous with my Kate Spade Claire - I feel like its screaming "I CAN'T GET OVER THE FACT THAT I PAID 200 FOR A PURSE SO NOW I CARRY IT EVEN THOUGH ITS OUT OF STYLE!"

For school, if I wear my brown clogs, I just don't switch purses, even if its black. I just don't have the energy. But all day I pray that no one notices!

[xok85xo]

Originally posted by juniorgrrl
In HS, I would wear my converse all-star low tops with skirts/dresses. although, I think that was sort-of cool at the time. Not sure.

oh, it was..i totally did it too.. but i look back and am like what the hell was i thinking..

more from me:

i used to wear leggings w/jean shorts..one of my favorite outfits in 7th grade was to wear these black leggings w/flowery print, jean shorts, my paula abdul concert tshirt(which was black w/print and other colors, so it actually did match the leggings) and keds..damn i was rockin

[jennybloch]

My past fashion faux pas:

Remember the skirts with the little shorts already attached underneath? I had one of those in hot pink

I wore lime green socks in elementary school...but it was in

Flannel plaid shirts in high school

Vests in 8th grade...what was I thinking?

Oversized t-shirts


My current fashion faux pas:

I only have one purse, I don't care about shoe color or anything like that so it doesn't matter

My ultra-baggy drawstring khakis that I wear a lot...too comfy to give up


I do hope that someone backs me up on the lime green socks!

[texas*princess]

Originally posted by AlphaGamDiva
for a while there i enjoyed the company of too much glitter and SILVER, SHINEY, SHINEY, SHINEY, SILVER eye shadow. hey....i was damn sexy!

Ahhh yes.. the GLITTER!!! How could have I forgot? In my junior high years, I thought I was the coolest girl in school.. WHY? Because I had GLITTER GEL FOR MY HAIR!!!!

hmm.. yea.